Academic Background, Healthcare, Healthcare Providers, Leadership, Medications, Nursing, Order/Customer Fulfillment, Patient Education, Pharmacy, Process Capability, Reimbursement
Location: Seven Lakes Pharmacy, Shoreview MN
Hours: 80 hours bi-weekly
Schedule: days
In this role, you will serve as a pharmacy advocate for patients on behalf of the clinicians prescribing medication. Your primary focus will be coordinating access to specialty take home medications. Work as part of a high-performing, interdisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, and other health care providers in a rewarding, fast-paced work environment in an academic/clinic setting. This is a unique position allowing a pharmacy technician to utilize/develop pharmacy and leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Educating patients on their insurance prescription benefits
- Communicating expectations, timing, and process capably to patients, caregivers, and clinics
- Expediting patient access to specialty medications by identifying and resolving barriers on behalf of clinic care teams, including: Submitting and following prior authorizations, Supporting providers by assisting with appeals, Coordinating fulfillment of orders with dispensing pharmacies, and assisting patients in being able to financially afford their medications
- Advising patients on their specialty pharmacy network and identifying limited distribution alternatives
- Explaining the benefits of enrolling into our specialty pharmacy program without impeding patient choice of pharmacy, and achieving patient participation
- Acting as an advocate for our specialty pharmacy
- Partner with multiple specialties, clinics, and medical providers
- Develop expertise in (at least) one clinical specialty to act as a subject matter expert for the larger liaison team, clinic, and our partners in access services
- Establishing relationships with industry representatives and reimbursement managers to maintain current knowledge on available financial assistance programs
Required Qualifications
- B.S./B.A. in business or healthcare related field or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- 3 years of pharmacy technician experience or related healthcare experience
- Pharmacy Technician MN
- Ability to obtain National Technician Certification within 180 days of being hired
Qualifications:
$27.88- $39.36 Hourly
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Fairview Health Services